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  • Nuance’s NDEV Mobile Developer Program Expands to Russia

    Nuance’s NDEV Mobile Developer Program Expands to Russia

    Posted on December 5, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Pantech Ease now official on AT&T

    Pantech Ease now official on AT&T

    Posted on June 20, 2010 | No Comments
    AT&T's latest from longtime partner Pantech has now gone from rumor to reality, bringing another full-touch dumbphone into the fold -- but there's an interesting twist on this one. The so-called Ease is clearly geared toward the older set, packing unique features like a pill reminder and built-in pedometer alongside more common goodies like text-to-speech and voice command. It's got a 2 megapixel camera, slide-out landscape keyboard, 3G, and a 3.2-inch WQVGA display paired with a $69.99 launch price (on contract after rebate, of course) that should make it fairly appealing to the penny-pinching types Pantech's clearly trying to appeal to with this one. It's available today.

    [Thanks, Sedat T.]

    Pantech Ease now official on AT&T originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • BlueAnt S4 Speakerphone: Speak to Me

    BlueAnt S4 Speakerphone: Speak to Me

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    BlueAnt Wireless just released its new hands-free speakerphone, the S4. It attaches to any car visor and connects wirelessly to most Bluetooth handsets. Simply turn it on and go. Reading the manual is not required; the S4 will vocally guide you through setup. Once paired with your handset, you can use the hands-free device without ever having to take your phone out of your pocket. The S4 offers a bunch of features although some seem gimmicky at best.

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  • LookTel, an app for the blind

    LookTel, an app for the blind

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Now here's a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. LookTel is an object identifier - you point it at something and it tells you what it is. You can teach it to recognize new objects and by aiming it at a product, the program can tell what it is using real speech and when you need to ID something on the fly, you can stick on an image sticker and read that sticker. It's more or less a barcode and QR scanner with some image recognition thrown in, but it really could be a boon to those with failing - or failed - eyesight.

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  • CrunchDeals: Garmin nuvi 285W with traffic and Bluetooth for $100

    CrunchDeals: Garmin nuvi 285W with traffic and Bluetooth for $100

    Posted on February 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Good news first: $100 is a pretty good deal for a 4.3-inch GPS with both traffic service and Bluetooth built in. Bad news: the traffic is via MSN Direct, it’s only free for nine months, and the service is completely shutting down on January 1, 2012.

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  • The Dulin’s Books Boox 60 packs Wi-Fi into a $350, 6-inch e-reader

    The Dulin’s Books Boox 60 packs Wi-Fi into a $350, 6-inch e-reader

    Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
    The US e-reader market is about to get one more player when Dulin's Books brings its Boox 60 reader to the States in the middle of January. But even though it packs a lot of tech into its shell like W-Fi, Wacom technology, and a Webkit browser, chances are it won't ever make it mainstream thanks to the Kindle, Nook, and Reader.

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  • Yet another new e-book reader – this one looks vaguely familiar

    Yet another new e-book reader – this one looks vaguely familiar

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Looks like 2010 is turning out to be the year of the e-book reader. I'm not sure at what point these are going to stop being news, but here we go again. Insdream is launching the SX601 which seems to borrow some significant design ideas from another rather popular e-book reader. The Insdream does use a different type of screen from the source material (can you say Kindle), but looks pretty much the same otherwise.

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  • Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

    Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    As if we didn't have enough pretenders in the ebook space, here's Ray Kurzweil with a new format of his own and a bagful of ambition to go with it. Set for a proper unveiling at CES in a week's time, the Blio format and accompanying application are together intended to deliver true-to-life color reproductions of the way real books appear. Interestingly, the software has been developed in partnership with Nokia, in an effort to turn Espoo's phones into "the smallest text-to-speech reading devices available thus far," though apps are also being developed for the iPhone, PC and Mac. The biggest advantage of this format might actually be behind the scenes, where the costs to publishers are drastically reduced by them having to only submit a PDF scan of their books, whose formatting remains unchanged in Blio. We'll be all over this at CES, but for now you'll find more pictures and early impressions over at Gizmodo.

    Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • TomTom to bring free lane guidance, text-to-speech, iPod control to iPhone GPS app

    TomTom to bring free lane guidance, text-to-speech, iPod control to iPhone GPS app

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments

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    TomTom's probably still dizzy from the hit that Google laid on it just a few days ago, but it has somehow managed to get its bearings long enough to announce that a slew of gratis updates are incoming for its highly-hyped iPhone navigation app. Following in Navigon's footsteps, the outfit has today stated that a free update has been submitted to Apple for approval, and when (er, if) it clears Cupertino's ambiguous review process, it'll deliver advanced lane guidance, text-to-speech, "Help Me," updated map / safety cameras (in select European nations) databases, customizable audio warnings and iPod player control. Not a bad list of additions for the grand total of $0.00, but we wouldn't expect anything less given the lofty admission price.

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    TomTom to bring free lane guidance, text-to-speech, iPod control to iPhone GPS app originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Motorola MILESTONE does what DROIDon’t

    Motorola MILESTONE does what DROIDon’t

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments

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    We've already seen the MILESTONE showing off multitouch capability, something the DROID clearly lacks in the States despite the fact that Android 2.0 rocks kernel support for it -- and now we've got another smoking gun: the official spec sheet. A quick glance at Motorola's tech specs for the Euro-flavored handset lists "pinch and zoom" as an interface feature, so yeah, it looks like this'll be in the shipping firmware. There's speculation out there that Apple was somehow involved in making sure that multitouch "fell" down a flight of stairs before reaching US-bound Android devices, but really, it's anyone's guess what's going on here -- and Moto's official statement isn't helping much:
    "We work very closely with our carriers and partners to deliver differentiated consumer experiences on our mobile devices. At times, similar devices come to market with different features, depending on the region, carrier preferences and consumer needs."
    Nor is Google's:
    "The Android 2.0 framework includes support for multi-touch. As with other platform technologies, such as the text-to-speech engine, carriers and OEMs can choose to implement it."
    So let the speculation -- and the firmware hacking -- begin.

    [Via Gearlog, image via mobile-review]

    Motorola MILESTONE does what DROIDon't originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Here’s the TomTom XL 335S, everyone

    Here’s the TomTom XL 335S, everyone

    Posted on October 13, 2009 | No Comments
    TomTom is here with yet another GPS device. The 335S packs a 4.3-inch touchscreen and text to speech functions into a small package with a somewhat competitive MSRP of $239. But like most other GPS units, that MSRP will probably be undercut by retailers as they try to push these GPS units onto holiday shoppers. Thankfully, the XL 335S seems to be decent for that price although I couldn't tell you the difference between this $239 335S and the $249 340S. (K.I.S.S)

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  • Woot! Refurbished TomTom GPS for $109

    Woot! Refurbished TomTom GPS for $109

    Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
    tomtomWoot.com has a pretty stellar deal on a 4.3-inch widescreen TomTom GPS system at $109, today only.

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  • CrunchDeals: Magellan RoadMate 1412 GPS for $100

    CrunchDeals: Magellan RoadMate 1412 GPS for $100

    Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Here's a pretty nice GPS deal to start the week off. Amazon's selling the Magellan RoadMate 1412 for $100, today only, after a $50 price break.

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  • Unannounced Sony Readers leak out, few care

    Unannounced Sony Readers leak out, few care

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Ready for more ebook readers? I hope so 'cause Sony has two in the pipe right now. Somehow the service manuals were posted in some random corner of the Internet and of course a forum user downloaded them. The PRS-300 seems to be an entry-level model and the PRS-600 is a slightly larger, better equipped ebook reader.

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  • Android “Donut” makes its first delicious appearance, packed with new toys

    Android “Donut” makes its first delicious appearance, packed with new toys

    Posted on July 25, 2009 | No Comments
    This weekend just turned into an early Christmas for Android hackers everywhere. Google just dropped an early alpha version of the upcoming major Android update, “Donut”, into the code repository. User Cyanogen of xda-developers was the first to notice the new code lingering, and is already hard at work getting it up and running [...]

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